[OpenID board] [step2] OpenID UI Extension - Draft 0.1 (formerly known as the Popup Extension)

[Nat Sakimura]

BTW, to speed up the process under the current process a bit, there is
one thing that we can do. Since the requirement is 20% of the
membership, as soon as it reached the level, the board should be able
to say "GO AHEAD!".

Am I wrong?

=nat

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. I am personally OK for not having any vote but we MUST have the
> IPR agreements in place. Otherwise, people would not be able to use
> the resulting spec.
>
> Actually, having the members to vote for the creation of WG is an
> overkill, IMHO.
> It should just be doing at the specs approval stage instead, but
> currently, this
> heavy weight process is what we have, unfortunately.
>
> What is the sentiment of the community on skipping the initial membership vote?
> I personally think it suffices to prohibit WGs having "OpenID" in its
> name at the
> time of creation and allow the TM usages only after it was ratified as
> a standard.
>
> =nat
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> I think the Specs Council has to vote to recommend the creation of the WG,
>> then it has to be put to vote.
>>
>> It also looks like each person joining the WG will need to have his (of her)
>> employer sign an IPR Agreement explicitly saying that the employee is
>> allowed to work on that WG.
>>
>> Allen
>>
>> Chris Messina wrote:
>>
>> I believe that the request to turn this discussion into a WG discussion was
>> made several days ago.
>> This is one area where we must make our procedures not impede progress!
>> Clearly people are excited and want to push this through; while the IPR
>> concern is a real one, the WG process should not work against getting things
>> done.
>> I see that, in order to create a working group [1], there must be a
>> membership vote of 7 days where at least 20% of the membership votes in
>> favor of the creation of the group.
>> It's unclear how we initiate this vote, or if it's already been requested.
>> Perhaps you could clear this up on the wiki page and also let us know where
>> we are in the process of creating the WG?
>> Chris
>> [1] http://wiki.openid.net/Working-Groups
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